heard about the bottom line, wow, the housing economy strong, auto economy strong, but we have worries about the gridlock in washington. how much of the sudden decline in americas is related to washington? >> well, jim, i wish i could give you an exact bead on that. i will tell you, we saw it in both of our businesses, which is unusual, components and computers. in components, we saw deterioration through the quarter. july year on year, one picture, august looked worse and september looked worse. deterioration through the quarter, very surprising for us. after the june quarter, we thought we had seen a reset, signs of stabilization. it was deterioration through september, and we went through the disappointing last two weeks, when there is usually a big rush to spend the quarter-end budget. >> you invoked on the conference call, 2008-2009. i thought we put those bad days behind us, but it did make me feel like maybe i'm being too optimistic. >> yeah, jim. '08-'09, different for a couple of key reasons. a lot of the concerns were driven around the liquidity crisis. now, a more general ma